Wilkie Collins

Hide and Seek (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A young woman falls in love with a mysterious drifter. She soon becomes pregnant and is banished by her aristocratic family. Desperate and alone, she gives birth to a daughter and dies in excruciating pain. Discovered by a traveling circus, the baby is taken in by the wife of a clown. Hide and Seek is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513287232
• Artikelnr.: 61915629

Autorenporträt

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and playwright. Born in London, Collins was raised in England, Italy, and France by William Collins, a renowned landscape painter, and his wife Harriet Geddes. After working for a short time as a tea merchant, he published Antonina (1850), his literary debut. He quickly became known as a leading author of sensation novels, a popular genre now recognized as a forerunner to detective fiction. Encouraged on by the success of his early work, Collins made a name for himself on the London literary scene. He soon befriended Charles Dickens, forming a strong bond grounded in friendship and mentorship that would last several decades. His novels The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868) are considered pioneering examples of mystery and detective fiction, and enabled Collins to become financially secure. Toward the end of the 1860s, at the height of his career, Collins began to suffer from numerous illnesses, including gout and opium addiction, which contributed to his decline as a writer. Beyond his literary work, Collins is seen as an early advocate for marriage reform, criticizing the institution and living a radically open romantic lifestyle.